Re: Security with TCP connections

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:33:09 +0100 (BST)


> My question is why the network layer doesn't take more care of some other
> fields than the ones strictly necessary (like ip identification field, or
> TCP sequence number for TCP connections) to prevent these attacks to success

2.2 does such checks

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